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Patient-targeted websites on overactive bladder: What are our patients reading?
Aisling A Clancy1, Duane Hickling2,3, Laura Didomizio4
1Division of Urogynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario.
Neurourology and Urodynamics
|August 2, 2017
Summary
Online information on overactive bladder (OAB) is often low quality and may be biased. Patients should critically evaluate health websites for accuracy and potential commercial influences when researching OAB.
Area of Science:
- Urology and Digital Health
Background:
- Patients increasingly use the internet for medical information.
- Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common condition prompting online searches.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the quality and readability of prominent websites providing information on overactive bladder (OAB).
Main Methods:
- Conducted a patient survey to identify common search terms and engines for OAB.
- Queried Google, Bing, and Yahoo! with top search terms, analyzing the first 20 results.
- Assessed website quality using DISCERN, JAMA benchmarks, and HONcode accreditation.
- Measured readability with SMOG and Dale-Chall indices.
Main Results:
- Analyzed 35 unique websites: 31% commercial, 29% health portals, 26% professional.
- Average DISCERN score was 44/80; only 9% met JAMA criteria.
- Readability scores indicated a high school to college reading level.
- 26% of websites held HONcode certification.
Conclusions:
- Widely accessed OAB websites generally offer low-quality, potentially biased information.
- Readability is often at a level accessible to educated laypersons.
- Patients need to be aware of the prevalence of incomplete and biased online OAB content.
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